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Beautiful Monsters Watercolors – Werewolf

Two dear friends (thank you Ellen and Dave) have encouraged me to start up my “Beautiful Monsters” watercolor series again after abandoning it a few years ago. I had planned out the paintings but never saw them through. The concept for “Werewolf” made an appearance in my Inktober sketches this year.

And now the completed painting joins “Vampire” and “Siren”. I have two other monsters from my initial sketches that I hope will be realized soon.

Grumbacher watercolors, micron pen on 300gm fine grain cold pressed.

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Bonus Inktober 2016 Time lapse Video !

Bonus Inktober 2016 Time lapse Video!

I wasn’t able to get this video posted before the end of Oct but I thought I would still share it. Learning from my first video – the camera is moved to my left side so the drawing isn’t covered by my hand and I’ve tried to have more light. Nearly all of my inktober drawing were done after I finished everything else for the day meaning they were done often late into the night.

The video has been sped up 16x to show a little over half and hour of inking. My tools for all of my inktober drawings-Castell XF 0.7 mechanical pencil, Mircon pens on toned paper and A3 LED light pad.

I hope to share more process videos in the future and perhaps some tutorials as well.

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Fallout Jumpsuit Vault 111 Costume

A friend of mine’s daughter wrote me in her best handwriting to asking if I would make her a Fallout Jumpsuit for her to wear to PAX Aus this past weekend. I of course excitedly agreed!

Her family provided the blue coveralls and I quickly set to work to transform it into a 111 jumpsuit. After sewing down the collar, some heat transfer vinyl and a yellow karate belt it was ready set out into the wasteland.

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Custom Bahamut Dragon Plush from FF7

This custom designed Bahamut plush dragon from Final Fantasy 7 is probably one of the most complicated plush toys I have made so far.

The plush is made from fleece and felt and stands at only 8 inch tall – roughly 12-13 inches tall including the wings and spikes.
He has glittery gold felt eyes and the claws are silvery grey. The wings are fully wired and pose-able and help the plush stand on its own. All the embroidery details have been done freehand by machine.

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Inktober Day 31 – Ghoul (Back Dated)

*I was fairly certain that I posted it on the day but that post seems to have disappeared. So here it is again!*

#inktober2016 Day 31 – Ghoul

Hungry, the creature feasts on the long dead found in a forgotten tomb.

Happy Halloween!

With a mixture of relief and sadness another Inktober comes to an end. It was a challenge to find time to do a drawing each day but I am really pleased that I could see it through. As rushed as some of these drawing are I am happy with all of them. It has been great practice and really good to draw on paper everyday.

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Inktober Day 30 – Cockatrice

#inktober2016 Day 30 – Cockatrice

The equally deadly brother to the Basilisk, the Cockatrice has the added advantage of flight.

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Inktober Day 29 – Basilisk

#inktober2016 Day 29 – Basilisk

Basilisk, King of the Serpents, huge and deadly.

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Inktober Day 28 – Kraken

#inktober2016 Day 28- Kraken

The mighty Kraken, a rare sight to be seen, its size beyond measure hides in the deep.

I finished off this drawing too late to post last night…I’m struggling a little to find time to do these everyday but I’m determined to see out the challenge.

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Inktober Day 27 – Bogeyman

#inktober2016 Day 27 – Bogeyman

The deepest fear, the darkest fear. No culture in the world is without the Bogeyman.

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Inktober Day 26 – Wolpertinger

#inktober2016 Day 26 – Wolpertinger

The fanged Germanic cousin to the Jackalope, the Wolpertinger.

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